5. The Chronology of the book.
The Chronology of the book is completed in a single month, that is, from the erection of the tabernacle on the first day of the first month of the second year of the Exodus,[1] to the second month of the same year, in which God commanded to undertake a census of the people, described at the beginning of the following book of Numbers.
[1] See Exodus 40:2.